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Is Tycho really THAT poor???

TeknoheadTeknohead Registered User new member
edited January 2008 in Debate and/or Discourse
From the front page:

"Part of the reason I quit World of Warcraft before was that my son had been born, and I didn't have the time or the money to play it."



I really find that one hard to believe. I struggle paying off two cars, rent, bills and have a fiance and son yet still have money spare to play wow or whatever I want to play.

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  • Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    It may be that he just felt he had better things to be spending it on than WoW. There are lots of them. Not necessarily that he was struggling financially.

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  • Randall_FlaggRandall_Flagg Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    are the superfluous question marks supposed to express extra puzzlement?

    Like, you have reached this Brobdingnagian plateau of confusion and you wanted to make sure we knew?

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  • Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    Brobdingnagian

    Oooh, nice word usage. :^:

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  • PicardathonPicardathon Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    are the superfluous question marks supposed to express extra puzzlement?

    Like, you have reached this Brobdingnagian plateau of confusion and you wanted to make sure we knew?

    Damnit, I didn't want to use dictionary.com today.

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  • ThetherooThetheroo Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    Brobdingnagian

    Oooh, nice word usage. :^:

    Seriously, I hear a band called the Brobdingnagian Bards all the time but I have absolutly no clue what it means. I always thought it was a place.

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  • ege02ege02 __BANNED USERS regular
    edited January 2008
    Opportunity cost is an elusive concept for the uneducated.

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  • GreeperGreeper Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    thetheroo wrote: »
    Brobdingnagian

    Oooh, nice word usage. :^:

    Seriously, I hear a band called the Brobdingnagian Bards all the time but I have absolutly no clue what it means. I always thought it was a place.

    it is a place, isn't it? The land of giants from Gulliver's travels.

    so you know, it means big.

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  • fightinfilipinofightinfilipino Angry as Hell #BLMRegistered User regular
    edited January 2008
    Teknohead wrote: »
    From the front page:

    "Part of the reason I quit World of Warcraft before was that my son had been born, and I didn't have the time or the money to play it."



    I really find that one hard to believe. I struggle paying off two cars, rent, bills and have a fiance and son yet still have money spare to play wow or whatever I want to play.


    different people have different economic priorities. the cost of living where Tycho lives might be higher than where you are.

    it's kind of a silly question...

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  • sdrawkcaB emaNsdrawkcaB emaN regular
    edited January 2008
    Yeah this thread does not belong in D&D or on the internet at all.

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  • WashWash Sweet Christmas Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    suilimeA wrote: »
    Yeah this thread does not belong in D&D or on the internet at all.

    But then where must it go?

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  • ZeroCowZeroCow Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    suilimeA wrote: »
    Yeah this thread does not belong in D&D or on the internet at all

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  • slowrollslowroll __BANNED USERS regular
    edited January 2008
    uh wow is a huge time sink
    i could see how it would interfere with child rearing... and parenting har har

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  • DukiDuki Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    Well, this has got me thinking, how much money does PA make a year, as a business? And what share of that do Gabe and Tycho receive?

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  • AdrienAdrien Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    are the superfluous question marks supposed to express extra puzzlement?

    Like, you have reached this Brobdingnagian plateau of confusion and you wanted to make sure we knew?

    Damnit, I didn't want to use dictionary.com today.

    If the first hit is the word of the day then you're cool.

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  • DevoutlyApatheticDevoutlyApathetic Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    Duki wrote: »
    Well, this has got me thinking, how much money does PA make a year, as a business? And what share of that do Gabe and Tycho receive?
    I don't think they publically disclose this kind of stuff. I don't believe they have any reason to.

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  • BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular
    edited January 2008
    Duki wrote: »
    Well, this has got me thinking, how much money does PA make a year, as a business? And what share of that do Gabe and Tycho receive?

    Didn't that wired article say somewhere in the low 7-ish figures?

    They're fairly well off, apparently.


    EDIT: here it is
    Today, Penny Arcade Inc. makes almost half of its money from ads and more than a third from merchandising. (Holkins and Krahulik refuse to disclose revenue, but it's probably safe to say it's in the low seven figures.) Part of that comes from a lucrative sideline making ads for game publishers, including Ubisoft, Vivendi, and Blizzard. "If we like a game, we can offer lots of cool services," Holkins says. He plays an MP3 of a song he's created using a Nintendo DS game called Jam Sessions, which simulates an acoustic guitar. It's a hilarious, surprisingly melancholy ode to a murdered videogame character, and about the best advertisement for the guitar game imaginable.

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  • DukiDuki Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    That's not a bad return. And well I figured some accounting stuff might released, but they're not exactly a publicly traded company. Are they even registered as a company?

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  • TarranonTarranon Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    I actually thought the same thing. I recall them being well off, so coming across that in the news post made me quirk my eyebrows a bit. I'm half surprised Blizzard doesn't give them infinite credits to their account, what with all the free advertising they got off them being huge fans.

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  • DevoutlyApatheticDevoutlyApathetic Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    That's cited as revenue. Revenue isn't profit.

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  • NibbleNibble Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    are the superfluous question marks supposed to express extra puzzlement?

    Like, you have reached this Brobdingnagian plateau of confusion and you wanted to make sure we knew???????

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  • TarranonTarranon Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    That's cited as revenue. Revenue isn't profit.

    But seeing as they make most of their money off advertisements, how high could their expenditures be?

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  • DocDoc Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited January 2008
    He had is kid something like 3 years ago now, didn't he?

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  • DevoutlyApatheticDevoutlyApathetic Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    Tarranon wrote: »
    That's cited as revenue. Revenue isn't profit.

    But seeing as they make most of their money off advertisements, how high could their expenditures be?

    They go through a lot of bandwidth, they rent office space and they employ multiple people. That stuff can add up quick. I doubt they're struggling to make ends meet or anything but they're not pocketing a cool million each year.

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  • KalTorakKalTorak One way or another, they all end up in the Undercity.Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    Tarranon wrote: »
    I actually thought the same thing. I recall them being well off, so coming across that in the news post made me quirk my eyebrows a bit. I'm half surprised Blizzard doesn't give them infinite credits to their account, what with all the free advertising they got off them being huge fans.

    Even if they pay for their accounts, they could probably write it off.

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  • Xenocide GeekXenocide Geek Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    i'm pretty sure the comment was meant to be glib

    you know, since wow takes over your fucking life, he couldn't afford to have that happen.

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  • DocDoc Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited January 2008
    Tarranon wrote: »
    That's cited as revenue. Revenue isn't profit.

    But seeing as they make most of their money off advertisements, how high could their expenditures be?

    They go through a lot of bandwidth, they rent office space and they employ multiple people. That stuff can add up quick. I doubt they're struggling to make ends meet or anything but they're not pocketing a cool million each year.

    Gabe said something about driving a Mercedes a while back. It may have been at PAX, but I don't think he was kidding.

    Like I said, Tycho's kid was born quite a while back; it's likely that PA has picked up significantly in terms of advertising (and certainly merch) since then.

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  • DukiDuki Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    Although even a few years ago it was pretty damn big.

    Who do they employ exactly? I know of Robert, obviously. Any other major employees?

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  • TarranonTarranon Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    I'm not entirely sure what their relationship with Kiko is.

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  • DocDoc Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited January 2008
    Tarranon wrote: »
    I'm not entirely sure what their relationship with Kiko is.

    Sexy.

    He designs merch for them.

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  • KalTorakKalTorak One way or another, they all end up in the Undercity.Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    They also have someone that runs Child's Play.

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  • ElkiElki get busy Moderator, ClubPA Mod Emeritus
    edited January 2008
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